UFOMYST
CaseSphere1966

Reading, PA, USA

huge molten sphere with liquid surface blending colors. Moving approx. 120 mph south to north. maybe 5000 feet. seen by six people

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1966-06-15
Where
Reading, PA, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
20 seconds
Geo
40.336, -75.927 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-reading-pa-1966-19adce
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1965–1967

    The Mid-Sixties Wave

    United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia

    The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…

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In context

  • Reading, PA shows up 80 times across the archive.
  • 14 reports came from Pennsylvania in 1966.
  • In the 1960s, 7.8% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Report

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